Puto cake (from the Java language, Puthu [IPA: / puʈu /]) is a type of Indonesian food in the form of a cake that contains sugar and grated coconut, rice flour, coarse grains. This cake is steamed with bamboo tube is placed in a slightly compacted and sold at sunset until late at night. Distinctive sound of steam coming from this hissing tool as well as a promotional tool for merchants who sell.
Most color of Puto cake is white and green.
Some traders today to replace the bamboo with PVC pipes for reasons of practicality, though in terms of the use of PVC endanger health.
Puto version Bugis (South Sulawesi, Indonesia) wearing black glutinous rice without sugar. Puto eaten with grated coconut and chilli. Puto Bugis just sold the mornings as a practical substitute for breakfast.
Puto cooker bugis
Puto bugis made from black glutinous
Puto cake itself has expanded to other countries, such as Singapore and Malaysia, although the name and shape of the cake is a little different, but it feels itself together with traditional Indonesian Puto cake itself.
During small you may already know puto palm, traditional wet cake is green, it is a blend of sweet-savory and contains palm it melts in the mouth. Puto bamboo palm, as the name suggests, has its peculiarities, namely in print using bamboo rod is cut into pieces. The result is a cake that is shaped like a cylinder, measuring approximately 5-8 cm, with a diameter of 3 cm.
Puto sugar now increasingly difficult to find in a big city, but you can find this palm puto seller sells around in the corners of the city. In addition, children are very happy to observe this traveling salesman Puto palm because of its distinctive squeaky sound when cooking Puto in a bamboo mold.
Although the starting price is cheap, there is no harm in trying to make yourself at home with this Puto cake recipe. Let's start introducing traditional pastries archipelago to your baby at home. Peek recipe to make a cake puto palm that we present below yeah!
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| Puto Bamboo Recipe |
Puto Bamboo material:
- 400 grams of dry rice flour
- 150 gr grated coconut
- 125 grams of brown sugar, thin slice
- 300 ml of water
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 2 sheet pandan leaves
- bamboo mold of 3-5 cm diameter.
- Banana leaves just enough to the pedestal.
Topping Ingredients:
- 300 grams of coconut older half without peel, grated
- 1 teaspoon salt
- Mix and steamed until cooked
How to Make Puto Bamboo:
- Prepare a pot, boil water, add salt, pandan leaves, stir briefly, remove and let stand until warm.
- Put rice flour in a container, pour the warm pandan water gradually while stirring constantly with hands until well blended and fine-grained, do until the water runs out.
- Prepare a coarse sieve, strain the batter earlier, instigation to form fine grains.
- Take a bamboo mold, put 1/2 batter, holes in the middle, put the slices of brown sugar, cover again to filled with flour dough, flatten.
- Feedback mold, save on a baking sheet that has been given a banana leaf mats. Repeat the pan can hold them.
- Steamed over high heat for 10 minutes, remove from heat, remove the cake from the mold Puto. Repeat until the dough runs out.
- Serve cake puto ripe with a sprinkling of grated coconut.
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